I’m back on the blog today after a two week hiatus. We were on vacation and had sick kids and while I kept wishing time would slow down, it just kept rolling on. So, we are back home and all are healthy and yet life is moving at a speed I just can’t quite keep up with. I’m in a season of helping to plan and write curriculum for our moms group at church (R.I.S.E. for moms) and it is also budget season for our Stewardship Committee. At home I have 5 active, excitable kiddos and a messy, dirty house with exploding laundry. I’m also designing a new awesome product with a bestie =). All of this to say that there are days (like today) where there is so much to do that I just don’t even know where to start. I know you all get this and have been there. I start wandering around carrying my cup of coffee and feeling angst but accomplishing nothing. Thats why I love this quote from Elisabeth Elliot. When I don’t know what to do and I feel like I can’t keep up, I do the next thing. I do it with prayer, relying on Christ’s strength and not my own. I know that God has placed this work before me to do today and so I can do it with joy and reliance on Him. The next time you feel overwhelmed and aren’t sure where to start, I hope these words come back to you and you choose to “do the next thing.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m back on the blog today after a two week hiatus. We were on vacation and had sick kids and while I kept wishing time would slow down, it just kept rolling on. So, we are back home and all are healthy and yet life is moving at a speed I just can’t quite keep up with. I’m in a season of helping to plan and write curriculum for our moms group at church (R.I.S.E. for moms) and it is also budget season for our Stewardship Committee. At home I have 5 active, excitable kiddos and a messy, dirty house with exploding laundry. I’m also designing a new awesome product with a bestie =). All of this to say that there are days (like today) where there is so much to do that I just don’t even know where to start. I know you all get this and have been there. I start wandering around carrying my cup of coffee and feeling angst but accomplishing nothing. Thats why I love this quote from Elisabeth Elliot. When I don’t know what to do and I feel like I can’t keep up, I do the next thing. I do it with prayer, relying on Christ’s strength and not my own. I know that God has placed this work before me to do today and so I can do it with joy and reliance on Him. The next time you feel overwhelmed and aren’t sure where to start, I hope these words come back to you and you choose to “do the next thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,46,48],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-do-the-next-thing","tag-elisabeth-elliot","tag-motherhood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Elisabeth-Elliot-quote.jpg?fit=564%2C792&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}